Goings-on

12 April 2012

Spring is gaining a reputation of feeling crazed (I’m realizing as I type the only season now left un-modified by this adjective is summer — which I will now be guarding with the steely tip of a blacked-out google calendar).  I don’t know if it’s the fact that we come out of the slumber of [...]

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An Easter lamb roast
& smoked trout deviled eggs

9 April 2012

We have friends, who for the second year running on Easter Sunday, have purchased a whole lamb, roasted it on an open fire in their backyard, and invited a slew of neighbors, friends, and friends-of-friends to come share the celebration. This year, the weather was just about perfect — bright and sunny, not a cloud [...]

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Make your own: sauerkraut

4 April 2012

Fermenting vegetables can feel like a mysterious, risky thing. Or, it did to me, anyway. And the first time I did it? I hated the results. It was back in the infamous days of starting my half-baked adventures with the Nourishing Traditions cookbook. I made ginger carrots, since that’s what Sally says is the fermented [...]

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Kitchen reno, part 4:
the wrap up.

2 April 2012

Well, the major points of our Fung Schway Kitchen Reno have been covered (miss it? check out part 1, part 2, or part 3). Now for final details that put icing on the proverbial cake: Jar pendants I despised strongly disliked the pendant lights that came with the house (also, why just two? when the [...]

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Because asparagus is in season.
Somewhere.

28 March 2012

We drove down to Bloomington today — the kids are on spring break, and since I’d like to be the “fun mom” at least one or two days out of the 14 they’ll be home, we went with friends to the Wonderlab — a small but all-around awesome science museum in the town that’s home [...]

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